Why not write a short "stub" program to setup the args and then a CALL statement to execute your subroutine? That's what we do very often. You can either put in DEBUG statements in the "stub" program before/after the subroutine call. 8-)
Andy Pflueger Ivy Hill Corporation Louisville, KY On Fri, 15 Oct 2004 16:59:04 -0600, Shawn Waldie <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Wondering if there is a way to execute a subroutine from the colon > prompt. > > Let's say I have a subroutine that is defined as having 2 input args > like: > > SUBROUTINE subr.name(arg1,arg2). > > I would like to test it from the colon prompt without having to > hard-code the values of arg1/arg2...something like: > > :RUN BP subr.name "value.of.arg1" "value.of.arg2" > > Is something like this possible? What I've tried so far hasn't worked. > > ************************************************ > * Shawn Waldie San Juan College * > * Programmer/Analyst 4601 College Blvd * > * Phone: (505)566-3072 Farmington, NM 87402 * > * email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] * > * * > * HP-UX 11.11 UniData 6.0.4 Colleague R17 * > ************************************************ > ------- > u2-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/ ------- u2-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe please visit http://listserver.u2ug.org/